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Pagina 96
... reader may be weary , though the critic may commend . Works of imagina- tion excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain which the reader throws away . He ...
... reader may be weary , though the critic may commend . Works of imagina- tion excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain which the reader throws away . He ...
Pagina 107
... reader with two syllables more than he expected . The effect of the triplet is the same ; the ear has been accustomed to expect a new rhyme in every couplet , but is on a sudden surprised with three rhymes together , to which the reader ...
... reader with two syllables more than he expected . The effect of the triplet is the same ; the ear has been accustomed to expect a new rhyme in every couplet , but is on a sudden surprised with three rhymes together , to which the reader ...
Pagina 355
... readers , though they were undoubtedly writ- ten to swell the volumes , ought not to pass without praise : commentaries which attract the reader by the pleasure of perusal have not often appeared ; the notes of others are read to clear ...
... readers , though they were undoubtedly writ- ten to swell the volumes , ought not to pass without praise : commentaries which attract the reader by the pleasure of perusal have not often appeared ; the notes of others are read to clear ...
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The Satirical Letters of St Jerome | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards allowed appeared Atrides Bolingbroke censure character Cibber confessed considered contempt Cowley criticism death declared delighted diction dignity diligence discovered DONNE Dryden Dunciad easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence faults favour fortune friends genius Georgics happy Homer honour human Iliad images imagination Johnson kind knew knowledge labour language learning lence letter likewise lines live Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Tyrconnel Lycidas mankind ment Milton mind mother nature neglected ness never o'er observed opinion Ovid panegyric Paradise Lost passion performance perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise published Queen reader reason remarks reputation resentment retired Richard Savage satire Savage Savage's says seems sentiments Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes stanza sufficient supposed thought tion translation truth Tyrconnel verses Virgil virtue write written wrote